Lessons learned at “Skeptics in the Pub.”

Skeptical beer is still skeptical.

You may recall me posting about the upcoming Skeptics in the Pub event that was scheduled to take place on the 25th of the month. Well that was yesterday, last night specifically, and I took the afternoon off work to attend.

I was, as I often am, later in . . . → Read More: Lessons learned at “Skeptics in the Pub.”

SEB Mailbag: “You wonder why healthcare is so expensive? It’s not the Doctors or Hospitals.”

I’m probably going to get myself in trouble with this one. There are people of a conservative persuasion in my circle of friends and extended family and most of them have learned not to send me email forwards of any kind because I have a bad habit of hitting Reply To All when I don’t . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: “You wonder why healthcare is so expensive? It’s not the Doctors or Hospitals.”

SEB Mailbag: “The Two Witnesses” edition.

Here’s something you don’t see every day. An email about the coming apocalypse that combines Christian end-times-nonsense with a government/alien (as in UFOs) conspiracy.

To whom it will concern,

A man and a woman are about to witness to, and reveal, some very shocking information that will have a profound and quite disturbing effect upon . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: “The Two Witnesses” edition.

And now a musical interlude: “Sky Mall Kitties”

For your listening enjoyment:

Nothing beats a good kitty song.

How to Live

Roger Ebert is dying and showing us how to live. Found at Pharyngula on February 19: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

My favorite excerpt:

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about . . . → Read More: How to Live

Happy 75th Birthday to my Mother.

Technically Momma turns 75 tomorrow, but we’re celebrating a day early because it’s the one day everyone has off and can gather at her place. I can never put into words just how lucky I was to have her for a mother. Especially compared to some of my friend’s mothers or just some of the . . . → Read More: Happy 75th Birthday to my Mother.

Today’s youth are much less religious than their parents.

Here’s a bit a news to brighten your day: The latest Pew Forum on Religion & Public life study finds that religious belief is on the decline among the younger population:

One in four American millennials — which it defined as those who were born after 1980 and came of age around the millennium — . . . → Read More: Today’s youth are much less religious than their parents.

Big Plans for Gen Con Indy 2010

Akusai from Action Skeptics here, folks. Well, ladies and gentlemen, plans for a symposium of reality-based programming at Gen Con Indy 2010 are coming together faster than I could have imagined. Some of you may remember that back in September Les was kind enough to allow me to post A Call to Skeptical Action, wherein . . . → Read More: Big Plans for Gen Con Indy 2010

No, I’m not dead yet.

Yep, it’s a I-haven’t-posted-anything-new-cause-I’m-busy post. Work has been busier than usual and my Cicso class has required quite a bit of my attention. Hence my time for writing witty nonsense has been more limited than usual.

I’ll try to get something more interesting to read up shortly, but for now just know that I am . . . → Read More: No, I’m not dead yet.

SEB is getting hammered with comment spam lately.

Here’s a graph showing all the spam SEB has received since the start of September of 2009:

It's like a SPAMQUAKE!

We jumped from a low of 23 last October to a record high this month of 2,056. I just cleaned out another 154 from the spam queue and there’s already 3 new ones . . . → Read More: SEB is getting hammered with comment spam lately.